Ten years ago Gordon Clark and I edited a two-part Arena Symposium in the Journal of Geography in Higher Education on Teaching Economic Geography (vols 18.1 and 18.2). This may be a good jumping off point to reflect how the subject has changed in the last decade and look to the future.
We would welcome some reflective pieces to be submitted to JGHE as a result of the AAG session, perhaps the organisers would like to edit a collection of upto half-a-dozen short papers arising from the session for submission to the journal?
Best wishes
Mick Healey
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Subject: CALL FOR PANEL MEMBERS
CALL FOR PANEL MEMBERS
A Panel Session at the 101st Annual Meeting of the Association of American
Geographers, Denver, 5-9 April 2005 (Sponsored by Economic Geography
Specialty Group)
Organizers: Neil M. Coe, School of Geography, University of Manchester, UK
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University, Toronto, Canada ([log in to unmask]) and Henry Wai-chung Yeung,
Department of Geography, National University of Singapore
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In the past few years, much has been written about economic geography as a
sub-discipline. This burgeoning literature has tackled recent theoretical
and methodological advancements, debated the policy relevance and impacts of
economic geography, explored the variably porous disciplinary boundaries of
the subject (particularly with economics) and packaged key writings in the
field for both undergraduate and postgraduate audiences. What is arguably
missing, however, is consideration of how the insights of a seemingly
re-invigorated economic geography can be translated into classroom teaching
practices and materials.
Most AAG economic geography sessions in the recent past have dealt with
theoretical and empirical research issues rather than pedagogical
considerations. In this proposed panel session, we aim to bring together
different generations of economic geographers to discuss how best we should
teach economic geography. We intend discussion and debate in the session to
be forward-looking rather than retrospective, innovative rather than
conventional, and exciting rather than mundane! We hope to explore the ways
in which students of economic geography can be introduced to the subject not
as a dry discipline to be toiled over, but as a vibrant and distinctive
collection of insights into the real world around them.
More specifically, we are interested in organizing 2-3 panel sessions that
address the following key dimensions of teaching economic geography:
> Why do we teach economic geography? I.e. relevance, usefulness, employability
> etc;
* What should we teach under the heading of *economic geography¹? I.e. key
themes and topics, theoretical approaches, curriculum design, methods/skills
etc;
* How do we teach economic geography innovatively and professionally? I.e.
key pedagogical issues, use of fieldwork, case studies and
internships/placements etc.;
* Differences between undergraduate and graduate economic geography
teaching;
* Issues surrounding the training of future economic geography researchers;
* Challenges and opportunities created by new technologies, the Internet and
the role of distance learning;
* Geographical differences in the teaching of economic geography;
* Potential for inter-institutional and international collaboration in the
teaching of economic geography;
* Any other issues.
You may visit the AAG website <http://www.aag.org <http://www.aag.org <http://www.aag.org> > > to
find out more about the annual meeting. Panel Sessions consist of 4-6
participants and take the form of 100-minute discussions among the panel and
audience members. Formal presentations are not part of panel sessions.
Please send us a brief write-up (100 words) of your potential contribution
to the panel session by 30th September 2004. We will contact you as soon as
we have finalized the line-up for these sessions. We will then ask for your
Program Identification Number (PIN).
Dr. Michael Samers
Secretary, Economic Geography Research Group, RGS-IBG
Director of Masters Programmes
School of Geography
University of Nottingham
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